Black Hundreds

The Black Hundreds was a Russian nationalist, monarchist, and anti-Semitic movement that existed in the Russian Empire from 1900 to 1917. The Black Hundreds incited pogroms against Jews, supported the autocracy of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, and helped in putting down Ukrainian cultural activist groups. In 1917, the Black Hundreds were abolished after the Bolshevik seizure of power during the Russian Revolution.